Snake Eyes Posted February 13, 2001 Share Posted February 13, 2001 As promised I have added up the votes for the rare and not so rare vehicles from the 'Rare Vehicle Poll' thread. There were many very interesting entries, some very strange entries and some...well let us call them not so serious entries. The top three winners are as follows: 1. M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage 2. Maus Super Heavy Tank 3. Brummbär and SturmTiger (tied) First place goes to the M16 Quad .50 cal MG 'Meat Chopper' and its relative the M15, a 37mm combined with two .50 cal MGs. These vehicles fall into the not so rare category. The US produced 680 M15s in 1942, 724 M16s (based on M3 HT) in 1942-43 and 1000 M17s (based on M5 HT) in 1943-44. These vehicles also represent a major interest in AA vehicles since many other such vehicles were registered, like the Canadian Skink and the German Kugelblitz. These latter two being truly rare vehicles. BTS will not be adding new vehicles to CMBO, but the Russians received 100 M15s and 1000 M17s via Lend Lease, so we can hope to see them in CM2. The Maus represents Hitler's obsession with super heavies. This behemoth weighed in at 208 US tons and had max armour of 240mm. It mounted a 12.8cm/L55 gun. A co-axial 7.5cm/L36.5 gun was also to be included. Max speed was 20km/h (12.5 mph) which it attained during testing. Only two prototypes were completed and neither entered service. This is definitely a dream (or nightmare) machine for players. At the scale of CM the appearance of such a beast would be a real shock to the opposite side. Its use would be restricted to firm ground and roads. Don't even think about crossing a bridge. The SturmTiger (aka Sturmmörser) had max armour of 150mm and had a 38cm mortar firing a rocket-assisted round up to 4600m. It's biggest drawback was its very slow rate of fire; 8-10 minutes to reload. 18 vehicles were produced. The Brummbär is another not so rare vehicle with 298 being produced from 4/43 to 3/45. It had max armour of 100mm and had a 15cm/L12 main gun. ------------------ It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Aesop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armornut Posted February 13, 2001 Share Posted February 13, 2001 Thanks for the results, and the great pics! Armornut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Eyes Posted February 13, 2001 Author Share Posted February 13, 2001 One last pass through page 1 before it drops off the radar screen forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mikey D Posted February 13, 2001 Share Posted February 13, 2001 If BigTime software needs proper scale plans to fashion polygons for the M15, M16, or the SU-57 tank killer (all based on U.S. halftracks), there's a thick new hardcover book due out soon by R.P. Hunnicutt called "Halftrack, History of U.S. Semi-tracked Vehicles". This book includes twenty eight full page 5-view scale drawings of the halftrack types. And you won't believe WHO drew all the scale plans for that book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Hofbauer Posted February 13, 2001 Share Posted February 13, 2001 1. The M15 and M16 were two vehicles, so either one or none of them could occupy the #1 spot 2. As you pointed out yourself, they were not "rare" therefore they don't even qualify as entries for a "rare vehicle poll" IMHO. ------------------ "Me tank is still alive me churchill's crew must be laughing there heads off." (GAZ_NZ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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